From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 3 08:09:58 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 029F51065697 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 08:09:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f213.google.com (mail-bw0-f213.google.com [209.85.218.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D8B88FC24 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 08:09:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@googlemail.com) Received: by bwz9 with SMTP id 9so8685112bwz.43 for ; Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:09:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:reply-to:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=K0IoJ48FeJ1gZ4B/XQDbG2i3wSlbAyH2wMgUzbBxezE=; b=dmY6mc7Z4LFCFl5xPyobqjM0lKop21u+GBQGV8VCmbWGC0ejR7MxkscWxJ8L991BVo 8hWGbCmN1zGj3lPzGVvvJ2PQGPWZ9/XM3j9TSWjxfytvEY6TJFIviFBFzgH7g71F1K8C H+a9fBC5dBVBj1ZWX/VZyll1vBn71BjFKOpW4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=tJ2kjNOMv6/+Fe8z76XSYhRsJ568azu0Ytk/2mDex4qADfjWRPsC9D/DMSa6A/L+zk 73HBzSnVx/ApTc4Wp6ToySPeqV/7LROCV+tLRL2Ld3Gc4YVWRreYEfcX8pSGc2XwKMcb NVnDv1M8QosfJ6Z05WveOxO0bGfZ2NOKpCCWw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.54.143 with SMTP id q15mr597507bkg.148.1244016596146; Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:09:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Chris Rees Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 09:09:36 +0100 Message-ID: To: Tim Judd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: mojo fms , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: acpi HD spin down and CPU sleep X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: utisoft@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:09:58 -0000 2009/6/3 Tim Judd : > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 11:17 PM, mojo fms wrote: > >> How would I configure freebsd 7.1 (7.2 upgrade in the future) to sleep t= he >> HD's and maybe sleep the CPU after an idle time out? =A0I am trying to s= ave >> power and I would like it to wake on network requests and HD needs. =A0I= read >> the handbook and looked at the acpiconf man page and such but I have not >> seen anything about doing this really. >> >> Thanks >> > > ataidle in ports for the HDD > > powerd in base for the CPU (if the CPU supports it) Or, for hard drives, I have in my rc.local /sbin/atacontrol spindown ad1 3600 from base system. Chris --=20 A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list?